NSP-SCD: A corpus construction protocol for child-directed print in understudied languages
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Feb 15. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02339-x. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTChild-directed print corpora enable systematic psycholinguistic investigations, but this research infrastructure is not available in many understudied languages. Moreover, researchers of understudied languages are dependent on manual tagging because precise automatized parsers are not yet available. One plausible way forward is to limit the intensive work to a small-sized corpus. However, with little systematic enquiry about approaches to corpus construction, it is unclear how robust a small corpus can be made. The current study ...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sonali Nag Sunila John Aakash Agrawal Source Type: research
A Mixture Fluency model using responses and response times with cognitive diagnosis model framework
This study introduces a Mixture Fluency model designed to account for random guessing behaviors while utilizing valid response accuracy and response time to uncover students' latent attribute profiles. The model directly addresses a limitation present in the Fluency cognitive diagnostic model (Wang & Chen, Psychometrika, 85, 600-629, (2020), which assumes that test-takers consistently employ solution behaviors when answering questions. To investigate the effectiveness of the proposed Mixture Fluency model, we conducted a simulation study encompassing various simulation conditions. Results from this study not only confi...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Zichu Liu Shiyu Wang Shumei Zhang Tao Qiu Source Type: research
eyeScrollR: A software method for reproducible mapping of eye-tracking data from scrollable web pages
We describe the R package eyeScrollR for mapping eye-tracking data from scrollable content such as web pages. The package re-maps eye-tracking gaze coordinates to full-page coordinates with a deterministic algorithm based on mouse scroll data. The package includes options for handling common situations, such as sticky menus or ads that remain visible when the user scrolls. We test the package's validity in different hardware and software settings and on different web pages and show that it is highly accurate when tested against manual coding. Compared to current methods, eyeScrollR provides a more reproducible and reliable...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 12, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nathanael Larigaldie Anna Dreneva Jacob L Orquin Source Type: research
eyeScrollR: A software method for reproducible mapping of eye-tracking data from scrollable web pages
We describe the R package eyeScrollR for mapping eye-tracking data from scrollable content such as web pages. The package re-maps eye-tracking gaze coordinates to full-page coordinates with a deterministic algorithm based on mouse scroll data. The package includes options for handling common situations, such as sticky menus or ads that remain visible when the user scrolls. We test the package's validity in different hardware and software settings and on different web pages and show that it is highly accurate when tested against manual coding. Compared to current methods, eyeScrollR provides a more reproducible and reliable...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 12, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nathanael Larigaldie Anna Dreneva Jacob L Orquin Source Type: research
Revisiting Snodgrass and Vanderwart in photograph form: The Keele Photo Stimulus Set (KPSS)
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Feb 8. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02351-1. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTOver the last 40 years, object recognition studies have moved from using simple line drawings, to more detailed illustrations, to more ecologically valid photographic representations. Researchers now have access to various stimuli sets, however, existing sets lack the ability to independently manipulate item format, as the concepts depicted are unique to the set they derive from. To enable such comparisons, Rossion and Pourtois (2004) revisited Snodgrass and Vanderwart's (1980) line drawings and digitally re-drew the objects, addi...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 9, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jamie Adams Susan M Sherman Helen L Williams Source Type: research
Evaluating two small-sample corrections for fixed-effects standard errors and inferences in multilevel models with heteroscedastic, unbalanced, clustered data
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Feb 6. doi: 10.3758/s13428-023-02325-9. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMultilevel modeling (MLM) is commonly used in psychological research to model clustered data. However, data in applied research usually violate one of the essential assumptions of MLM-homogeneity of variance. While the fixed-effect estimates produced by the maximum likelihood method remain unbiased, the standard errors for the fixed effects are misestimated, resulting in inaccurate inferences and inflated or deflated type I error rates. To correct the bias in fixed effects standard errors and provide valid inferences, small-sample...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 6, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Yichi Zhang Mark H C Lai Source Type: research
thebeat: A Python package for working with rhythms and other temporal sequences
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Feb 2. doi: 10.3758/s13428-023-02334-8. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTthebeat is a Python package for working with temporal sequences and rhythms in the behavioral and cognitive sciences, as well as in bioacoustics. It provides functionality for creating experimental stimuli, and for visualizing and analyzing temporal data. Sequences, sounds, and experimental trials can be generated using single lines of code. thebeat contains functions for calculating common rhythmic measures, such as interval ratios, and for producing plots, such as circular histograms. thebeat saves researchers time when creating...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jelle van der Werff Andrea Ravignani Yannick Jadoul Source Type: research
Handling dependent samples in meta-analytic structural equation models: A Wishart-based approach
We present an approach to meta-analytic structural equation models that relies on hierarchical modeling of sample covariance matrices under the assumption that the matrices are Wishart. The approach handles the commonplace fixed- and random-effects meta-analytic SEMs, and solves the problem of dependent covariance matrices where more than one covariance matrix is obtained from a single study or study author. The ability of the approach to adequately recover parameters is examined via a simulation study. The approach is implemented in the bayesianmasem R package and a demonstration shows applications of the model.PMID:38308...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: James Ohisei Uanhoro Source Type: research
Statistical power analysis and sample size planning for moderated mediation models
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Feb 2. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02342-2. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTConditional process models, including moderated mediation models and mediated moderation models, are widely used in behavioral science research. However, few studies have examined approaches to conduct statistical power analysis for such models and there is also a lack of software packages that provide such power analysis functionalities. In this paper, we introduce new simulation-based methods for power analysis of conditional process models with a focus on moderated mediation models. These simulation-based methods provide intuit...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ziqian Xu Fei Gao Anqi Fa Wen Qu Zhiyong Zhang Source Type: research
The Index of Intrusion Control (IIC): Capturing individual variability in intentional intrusion control in the laboratory
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Jan 30. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02345-z. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIntrusive memories can be downregulated using intentional memory control, as measured via the Think/No-Think paradigm. In this task, participants retrieve or suppress memories in response to an associated reminder cue. After each suppression trial, participants rate whether the association intruded into awareness. Previous research has found that repeatedly exerting intentional control over memory intrusions reduces their frequency. This decrease is often summarised with a linear index, which may miss more complex patterns charac...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - January 30, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Stephanie M Ashton Pierre Gagnepain Per Davidson Robin Hellerstedt Akul Satish Tom Smeets Conny W E M Quaedflieg Source Type: research
Measurement reactivity in ambulatory assessment: Increase in emotional clarity over time independent of sampling frequency
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Jan 30. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02346-y. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAmbulatory assessment (AA) studies are frequently used to study emotions, cognitions, and behavior in daily life. But does the measurement itself produce reactivity, that is, are the constructs that are measured influenced by participation? We investigated individual differences in intraindividual change in momentary emotional clarity and momentary pleasant-unpleasant mood over the course of an AA study. Specifically, we experimentally manipulated sampling frequency and hypothesized that the intraindividual change over time would...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - January 30, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Charlotte Ottenstein Kilian Hasselhorn Tanja Lischetzke Source Type: research
The Emotion-to-Music Mapping Atlas (EMMA): A systematically organized online database of emotionally evocative music excerpts
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Jan 30. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02336-0. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSelecting appropriate musical stimuli to induce specific emotions represents a recurring challenge in music and emotion research. Most existing stimuli have been categorized according to taxonomies derived from general emotion models (e.g., basic emotions, affective circumplex), have been rated for perceived emotions, and are rarely defined in terms of interrater agreement. To redress these limitations, we present research that served in the development of a new interactive online database, including an initial set of 364 music e...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - January 29, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hannah Strauss Julia Vigl Peer-Ole Jacobsen Martin Bayer Francesca Talamini Wolfgang Vigl Eva Zangerle Marcel Zentner Source Type: research
Can generative AI infer thinking style from language? Evaluating the utility of AI as a psychological text analysis tool
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Jan 26. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02344-0. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTGenerative AI, short for Generative Artificial Intelligence, a class of artificial intelligence systems, is not currently the choice technology for text analysis, but prior work suggests it may have some utility to assess dynamics like emotion. The current work builds upon this empirical foundation to consider how analytic thinking scores from a large language model chatbot, ChatGPT, were linked to analytic thinking scores from dictionary-based tools like Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC). Using over 16,000 texts from four...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - January 26, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: David M Markowitz Source Type: research
Ant colony optimization for parallel test assembly
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Jan 26. doi: 10.3758/s13428-023-02319-7. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAnt colony optimization (ACO) algorithms have previously been used to compile single short scales of psychological constructs. In the present article, we showcase the versatility of the ACO to construct multiple parallel short scales that adhere to several competing and interacting criteria simultaneously. Based on an initial pool of 120 knowledge items, we assembled three 12-item tests that (a) adequately cover the construct at the domain level, (b) follow a unidimensional measurement model, (c) allow reliable and (d) precise me...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - January 26, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Luc Zimny Ulrich Schroeders Oliver Wilhelm Source Type: research
Automated facial expression measurement in a longitudinal sample of 4- and 8-month-olds: Baby FaceReader 9 and manual coding of affective expressions
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Jan 25. doi: 10.3758/s13428-023-02301-3. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFacial expressions are among the earliest behaviors infants use to express emotional states, and are crucial to preverbal social interaction. Manual coding of infant facial expressions, however, is laborious and poses limitations to replicability. Recent developments in computer vision have advanced automated facial expression analyses in adults, providing reproducible results at lower time investment. Baby FaceReader 9 is commercially available software for automated measurement of infant facial expressions, but has received lit...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - January 25, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Martina S Zaharieva Eliala A Salvadori Daniel S Messinger Ingmar Visser Cristina Colonnesi Source Type: research
